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Fish Farm



Fadi Masoud
University of Toronto, 2009

Problem
Many of New Orleans’s industrial waterways have lost their economic value as the city’s port moved downstream, out of the city’s center. These industrial channels are polluted and hazardous, and their large scale makes them dangerous sites for destructive wave action during storm surges.

Proposal
This project fills in a defunct industrial channel and reconfigures it for aquaculture. The threat of storm surges is eliminated by closing the channel. The dimensions of the new landscape are scaled to optimize production of catfish, crawfish, and rice. A wetland at the downstream end of the system absorbs the nutrients produced by fish farming and releases clean water into the main channel of the Mississippi River.